Athous (Orthathous) demirsoyi, Platia & Kabalak & Sert, 2007

Platia, Giuseppe, Kabalak, Mahmut & Sert, Osman, 2007, Descriptions of two new species of click-beetle (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Turkey, Zootaxa 1415 (1), pp. 43-47 : 45-46

Athous (Orthathous) demirsoyi n. sp.

( Figs. 1a , 2a , 3a )

Holotype Male: Turkey: Çat village Elevit stream, Rize, 16.VII.1991, A. Demirsoy leg. (Kabalak-Sert coll., Ankara) . Paratype: 1 male, Çamlıhemşin, Çat village and its surrounding area, Rize, 9.VII.1990, S. Süalp Çaǧlar leg. (Platia coll., Gatteo) .

Description: Male: length 11.1–11.5 mm; width 3.2–3.3 mm. Colour variable (holotype generally lighter); head and pronotum with margins and angles ferruginous, scutellum black, elytra brown ferruginous to darker; antennae ferruginous to blackish; legs ferruginous; covered with short, yellow-fulvous pubescence. Head plus eyes narrower than anterior margin of pronotum; frons slightly depressed at vertex then gradually more depressed at anterior margin, the latter subarcuate, at center very fine, touching the clypeus, not protruding; punctures strongly umbilicate, with shortest intervals to contiguous. Antenna exceeding by about 2.5 segments past the apices of posterior angles of pronotum; second segment subconical, as long as wide; third subtriangular, twice longer than second and just shorter than fourth; second and third taken together clearly longer than fourth; fourth-tenth serrate, triangular; fourth-fifth less twice longer than wide; sixth-tenth slender, more twice longer than wide; eleventh longer than penultimate gradually narrowing at apex. Pronotum 1.1 times longer than wide, strongly and regularly convex on the disk, declivous at sides, abruptly declivous at base without any vestige of median longitudinal sulcus; sides feebly arcuate with the largest width at middle and at posterior angles, the latter short, just divergent, finely pointed at apex, directed upwards, not carinate; lateral margin entire and completely apparent in dorsal view; punctuation uniform on the entire surface; punctures on the disk deep, simple to vaguely umbilicate, the intervals between them shorter than their own diameter; denser and nearly contiguous, clearly umbilicate at sides. Scutellum narrower than the inter-elytral space, as long as wide, dorsally convex, strongly and roughly punctured. Elytra 2.6 times longer than pronotum; sides subparallel in the first half, feebly dilated behind the middle and then gradually narrowing towards apex; striae regularly impressed, very indistinctly punctured; interstriae flat, densely punctured with rough surface. Legs with fourth tarsal segment very small, in dorsal view much narrower than third and less half the length of the latter. Male genitalia typical of the genus, paramere acutely dentate as in Fig.3a (length 1.35 mm).

Female: Unknown.

Etymology: The name is derived from the name of collector, A. Demirsoy.

Ecological notes: Unknown.

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Figures

FIGURE 1. Adults; a, Athous (O.) demirsoyi n. sp. ♂; b, Ampedus turcicus n. sp. ♂; c, Ampedus turcicus n. sp. ♀

FIGURE 2. Antennae (scale = 1 mm); a, Athous (O.) demirsoyi n. sp. ♂.; b, Ampedus turcicus n. sp. ♂; c, Ampedus turcicus n. sp. ♀

FIGURE 3. Male genital organs (scale = 1 mm); a, Athous (O.) demirsoyi n. sp.; b, Ampedus turcicus n. sp.